"Eidos Interactive and Warner Bros. announced today that the Joker will be a playable character in the upcoming title Batman: Arkham Asylum -- but only on the PlayStation 3. Joker will be available at the game's launch as a free downloadable item on the PlayStation Store. The press release notes that he will only be available for use in the Challenge Maps, so don't expect a massive single-player campaign associated with the legendary villain."

Joker is exclusive to the PS3 unless Edios says otherwise. Anyways can't wait to play Batman: Arkham Asylum. Good to see us PS3 owners get some exclusive dlc even though I still believe its bullsh*t on either side 360 and PS3.

wow you must be legally blind if you think this looks like a below average superhero game. This game is going to blow the doors off any other superhero game. unless you thought spiderman web of shadows was good LMAO

I didn't put a disagree on you, but I do disagree with what you wrote. From what have seen, the definitely doesn't look below average. It looks quite good. Also from a lot of preview I have seen, the people previewing it have been very positive about the game. I do agree however, it will probably fail. I think it looks terrific, but I highly doubt I will be picking this up.

It will come out for 360 via DLC..... the same as an exclusive 360 playable character will be made available for the ps3 in the same manner. Don`t be so ******* stupid Fanboys, its all about the money.

Everyone getting access to all a game has to offer is good, IMHO. I think the only difference is that PS3 users will get it free while 360 users will have to pay for the DLC. At least it's not like Fallout 3.

Well this news is false. There is a post on the official eido forums that states.

Originally Posted by mycoldman We have made no such announcement of these stages becoming available on Xbox 360. I would take that twitter post with an extreme pinch of salt as they have no more information on this than what we have already put out at this time.

“You’ve heard The Joker is playable in Arkham Asylum on PS3, right?” says the tweet. “Those stages are DLC on 360. It’s our May covergame; look forward to it.”

the news about the ps3 joker character never said 360 wouldn't have the challenges (as seen at gdc played as batman) just that the ps3 would have the joker as an option to play those challenges.. not to doubt the tweet but the all the tweet says is that they too get the challenges which i thought was already common knowledge.

"Eidos Interactive and Warner Bros. announced today that the Joker will be a playable character in the upcoming title Batman: Arkham Asylum -- but only on the PlayStation 3. Joker will be available at the game's launch as a free downloadable item on the PlayStation Store. The press release notes that he will only be available for use in the Challenge Maps, so don't expect a massive single-player campaign associated with the legendary villain."